van Staveren The Values of Economics

An Aristotelian Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-54869-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Economics as Social Theory

In his Ethics, Aristotle argued that human beings try to further a variety of values by balancing them, stating that people try to find a middle road between excess and deficiency. The author develops and applies this idea to the values of economics, arguing that in the economy; freedom, justice and care are also balanced to further ends with scarce means. Freedom is furthered through market exchange, justice through a redistributive role of the state, and care through mutual gifts of labour and sharing of resources in the economy.
The book argues that economics is, and has always been, about human values, which guide, enable, constrain and change economic behaviour.

Autoren/Hrsg.

van Staveren, Irene

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Missing Ethical Capabilities of Rational Economic Man 2. Paradoxes of Value 3. Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite 4. Beyond the Highway of Modern Economics 5. Hypotheses on Economic Role Combination 6. Toward an Aristotelian Economics 7. Institutional Mediation Between Value Domains